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Periannan Pillai Devaraj (born 21 February 1929) is a Sri Lankan politician and former minister of state.

Early life

Devaraj was born on 21 February 1929. He was educated at St. Sylvester's College, Kandy. He has a B.Sc. degree in economics.

Career

Devaraj was director of the Congress Labour Foundation, part of the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) and was an advisor to CWC leader Savumiamoorthy Thondaman. He was later vice president of the CWC.

Devaraj was appointed as one of the CWC/UNP alliance's National List MP in the Sri Lankan Parliament following the 1989 parliamentary election. He was appointed Minister of State for Hindu Religious and Cultural Affairs on 18 February 1989. He contested the 1994 parliamentary election as one of the CWC/UNP alliance's candidates in Colombo District but failed to get elected. However, he re-entered Parliament following the assassination of Ossie Abeygunasekera and Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi on 24 October 1994. Following the death of Thondaman in 1999 Devaraj tried unsuccessful to gain the leadership of the CWC from Thondaman's grandson Arumugam Thondaman.

Devaraj was elected chairman of the Global Organization for People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) in 2007.

References

1. "Directory of Past Members: Periannan Pillai Devaraj". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
2. ^ de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 296. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2015.
3. "Devaraj elected Chairman of Global Level Indian Organisation". The Island (Sri Lanka). 27 December 2007.
4. Satyapalan, Franklin R. (22 August 2010). "Joint Committee of Indian Origin Organizations proposes". The Island (Sri Lanka).
5. de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 211. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2015.
6. de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 215. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2015.
7. "The question of the Tamil vote". The Island (Sri Lanka). 3 January 2010.
8. Kamalendran, Chris (9 July 2000). "Divided we stand". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).
9. "P. P. Devaraj-Chairman of Global Level Indian Organisation". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka). 30 December 2007.

v t e ← Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (1989 (1989)–1994 (1994)) →
Speaker: M. H. Mohamed Prime Minister: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga/Ranil Wickremesinghe Leader of the Opposition: Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Central Province	Kandy Mahinda Abeykoon Tissa Attanayake A. R. M. Abdul Cader Chandraman de Silva Harindra Dunuwille A. C. S. Hameed D. M. Jayaratne Lakshman Kiriella Mahahitana Arachchige Daniel Yasaratne Tennakoon Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Premachandra Wijesiri Matale Alick Aluwihare Nandimithra Ekanayake Wijeratne Banda Jambugahapitiyagedera V. G. Jinadasa P. B. Kaviratne Nuwara Eliya Tissa Abeyagoonasekera Ananda Dassanayake S. B. Dissanayake Gamini Dissanayake Renuka Herath Wijesundara Bandara Ranatunga
Eastern Province	Ampara M. H. M. Ashraff Nihal Bakmeewewa Ahangama Polwatte Galappatthige Chandradasa P. Dayaratna Karunasinghe Thewarapperuma J. Thiviyanathan Batticaloa Prince Casinader Alathipody Gunaseelan M. L. A. M. Hizbullah G. Karunakaran Sam Tambimuttu Trincomalee M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana M. E. H. Maharoof Konamalai Mathavarajah Sivapragasam Ratnarajah
Northern Province	Jaffna Sebastiyampillai Edward Thambu Loganathapillai K. Navaratnam Eliyathamby Pararasasingam Suresh Premachandran Arunasalam Ponniah Selliah Kanapathy Selvanayagam S. Sivamaharajah Joseph George Rajenthiram Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy G. Yogasangari Vanni Innasimuthu Alfred S. S. M. Abu Bakar R. Kuhaneswaran Rasamanohari Pulendran A. E. Silva
North Central Province	Anuradhapura Janak Mahendra Adhikari Sompala Adhikari D. M. Ariyadasa Chandrasoma Bandara Berty Premalal Dissanayake Lal Dharmapriya Gamage Themiya Hurulle K. B. Ratnayake Polonnaruwa Seid Ahamed Abdul Majeed H. G. P. Nelson Samarasinghe Arachchilage Muthubanda Maithripala Sirisena C. A. Suriyaarachchi
North Western Province	Kurunegala Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Bandaranayaka Upali Mervin Senarath Dasanayaka Herath Mudiyanselage Ariyawardanage Lokubanda S. B. Nawinne Upali Piyasoma A.M. Munidasa Premachandra G. M. Premachandra Lionel Rajapaksa Jayasena Rajakaruna Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake Ariya Rekawa Herath Banda Wanninayaka Sarathchandra Bandara Welagedara Diunugallage Peter Wickramasinghe Ukkubanda Wijekoon Puttalam Harindra Jayanthi Corea Sujatha Dharmawardana Milroy Fernando Harold Herath S. D. R. Jayaratne Festus Perera Ashoka Wadigamangawa
Sabaragamuwa Province	Kegalle Jagath Balasuriya Mohamed Farook Dharmadewa Jayasinghe Samantha Devi Karunaratne Vincent Perera Chandradasa Ranatunga Dharmasiri Senanayake Athauda Seneviratne Mano Wijeyeratne Ratnapura M. L. M. Aboosally Athula Kularatne Attygale Gamini Atukorale Nanda Ellawala Chandrasekara Gankande Helen Mahattaya Liyanage Nanda Mathew Vasudeva Nanayakkara John Seneviratne Wimal Wickramasinghe
Southern Province	Galle Upali Sarath Danston Amarasiri Nandimithra de Soyza Amarasiri Dodangoda Piyasena Gamage Vincent Jayawardene Noel Kariyawasam Rupa Karunathilake Nanda Kumarage Buddhika Kurukularatne Hemakumara Nanayakkara Richard Pathirana Hambantota Hary Abeydheera Ranjit Atapattu Ananda Kularatne Cyril Madduma Baduge Chamal Rajapaksa Mahinda Rajapaksa Gunapala Tissakuttiarachchi Matara Gamini Fonseka Madurapala Ediriweera H. R. Piyasiri Mangala Samaraweera Peter Silva Hewagampolage Sirisena Dayananda Wickremasinghe Ranjan Wijayawardhana Mahinda Wijesekara
Uva Province	Badulla Chandra Karunaratne W. J. M. Lokubandara Hema Ratnayake Ravindra Samaraweera Lakshman Senewiratne Madduma Bandara Sethapenage Edwin Wickramarathne Samaraweera Weerawanni Monaragala Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Ariyaratna Dharmadasa Banda Ranjith Madduma Bandara Gunavathi Dissanayake Gamini Vijith Vijithamuni Soysa
Western Province	Colombo Lalith Athulathmudali Jabir Cader Sirisena Cooray Nimal Siripala de Silva Tyronne Fernando C. V. Gunaratne Premaratne Gunasekera Bandula Gunawardane Dinesh Gunawardena Gamini Lokuge Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi M. H. Mohamed Jinadasa Niyathapala Nimal Ransiri Peiris Dickson Sarathchandra Dela Vincent Perera Sunethra Ranasinghe M. S. Sellasamy Stanley Tillekeratne Kingsley Wickramaratne Gampaha John Amaratunga Anura Bandaranaike Sirimavo Bandaranaike Donald Dissanayake Jeyaraj Fernandopulle Mahen Gunasekera Lakshman Jayakody Ariyarathna Jayathilaka Wijayapala Mendis Joseph Michael Perera Paul Perera Sarathchandra Rajakaruna Reggie Ranatunga Sardhatissa Sakalasooriya Ranil Wickremesinghe Mahindra Wijerathna Kalutara Pathirage Don Abeyratne Sumitha Priyanganie Abeyweera Mervin Joseph Cooray Neville Fernando Indradasa Hettiarachchi Thilak Karunaratne Imthiaz Bakeer Markar Anil Moonesinghe Mangala Moonesinghe Sarath Ranawaka Punsiri Samaranayake
National List (29)	Rupa Sriyani Daniel Alec Robertson S. L. Gunasekara Tellipalai Rajaratnam Unfinished

v t e ← Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka (1994 (1994)–2000 (2000)) →
Speaker: K. B. Ratnayake Prime Minister: Chandrika Kumaratunga/Sirimavo Bandaranaike/Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Leader of the Opposition: Ranil Wickremesinghe
Central Province	Kandy Sarath Amunugama Tissa Attanayake A. R. M. Abdul Cader Gamini Dissanayake A. C. S. Hameed D. M. Jayaratne Lucky Jayawardena Lakshman Kiriella Wilson Kuruppuarachchi Anuruddha Ratwatte Irajarathnan Sivasamy Ediriweera Weerawardhana Matale Alick Aluwihare Nandimithra Ekanayake Monty Gopallawa Vidana Gamage Jinadasa Janaka Bandara Tennakoon Nuwara Eliya Tissa Abhayagunasekara P. Chandrasekaran S. B. Dissanayake Renuka Herath C. B. Ratnayake Suppaiah Sathasivam Muthu Sivalingam Arumugam Thondaman
Eastern Province	Ampara M. H. M. Ashraff Nihal Bakmeewewa P. Dayaratna Chandradasa Galappaththi U. L. M. Mohideen H.M. Weerasinghe Batticaloa M. L. A. M. Hizbullah Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana Joseph Pararajasingham P. Selvarasa K. Thurairajasingam Trincomalee M. E. H. Maharoof M. N. Abdul Majeed Sunil Ranaweera A. Thangathurai
Northern Province	Jaffna Umapathisivam Baskaran Murugesu Chandrakumar Douglas Devananda Aithurus M. Illias Atputharajah Nadarajah Rajendran Ramamoorthy Alagaiah Rasamanickam Sangarapillai Sivathasan Sinniah Thangavel M. A. Ghafoor Zafarullah Vanni S. S. M. Abu Bakar V. Balachandran Rasamanohari Pulendran S. Shanmuganathan D. Siddarthan Premaratnage Sumathipala
North Central Province	Anuradhapura Somapala Adikari Chandrasoma Bandara Berty Premalal Dissanayake P. B. Dissanayake P. Harrison Tissa Karalliyadde Shantha Premarathna A. H. B. Semasinghe Polonnaruwa Nandasena Herath T. B. Mahalekam H. G. P. Nelson Rukman Senanayake Maithripala Sirisena
North Western Province	Kurunegala A.H.M Alavi D. M. Bandaranayake Bandula Basnayake Jayadeva Chandrawansha Salinda Dissanayake T. B. Ekanayake H.M.A. Loku Bandara S. B. Nawinne Gamini Jayawickrama Perera Munidasa Premachandra Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake Jayasena Rajakaruna Piyasoma Upali D.P. Wickramasinghe Anura Priyadharshana Yapa Puttalam D. M. Dassanayake Joseph Fernando Milroy Fernando Harold Herath Festus Perera S. D. R. Jayaratne Asoka Wadigamangawa
Sabaragamuwa Province	Kegalle Jagath Balasooriya Y. L. M. Farook Maheepala Herath P. B. G. Kalugalla K. Vincent Perera H. R. J. Podinilame Athauda Seneviratne R.A.D. Sirisena Mano Wijeyeratne Ratnapura Gamini Atukorale Nalanda Ellawala U. L. Heenmahaththaya K. D. Nanda Mathew Vasudeva Nanayakkara Susantha Punchinilame Jayatissa Ranaweera John Seneviratne H. M. U. Silva Pavithra Wanniarachchi
Southern Province	Galle Vajira Abeywardena M. U. S. D. Amarasiri Asoka Weerasinghe de Silva Amarasiri Dodangoda Piyasena Gamage Sarath Gunawardena Nandadasa Gunasinghe H. G. N. P. Kariyawasam Rupa Karunathilake Richard Pathirana Hambantota Mahinda Amaraweera Ananda Kularatne Chamal Rajapaksa Mahinda Rajapaksa Nirupama Rajapaksa Mervyn Silva J. P. V. Vipulaguna Nihal Galappaththi Matara Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena Dullas Alahapperuma Ronnie de Mel Chandrasiri Gajadeera E. A. Samarasinghe Mangala Samaraweera Mahinda Wijesekara H. R. Wimalasiri
Uva Province	Badulla W. J. M. Lokubandara Dilan Perera Hema Ratnayake R.M. Ratnayake Ravindra Samaraweera Lakshman Senewiratne Sennan Veera Samaraweera Weerawanni Monaragala Dharmadasa Banda Ranjith Madduma Bandara Sumedha Jayasena A. M. Jayawardana Jagath Pushpakumara
Western Province	Colombo Ossie Abeygunasekera P. P. Devaraj Srimani Athulathmudali Nawalage Bennet Cooray Nimal Siripala de Silva Tyronne Fernando A. H. M. Fowzie C. V. Gunaratne Indika Gunawardena Karunasena Kodituwakku Jeewan Kumaranatunga Gamini Lokuge Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi R. Yogarajan M. H. Mohamed Susil Moonesinghe Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra Gunasekara Premaratne Amal Senalankadikara Bernard Soysa Kingsley Wickramaratne Ranil Wickremesinghe Gampaha John Amaratunga Chandrika Kumaratunga Jeyaraj Fernandopulle Upali Gunaratne Lionel Gunawardena Anura Hapangama Lakshman Jayakody Wijayapala Mendis Jinadasa Nandasena Athula Nimalasiri Felix Perera Joseph Michael Perera Reginold Perera Sarathchandra Rajakaruna Suranimala Rajapaksha Reggie Ranatunga Neil Rupasinghe A. V. Suraweera Kalutara Sumithra Priyanganie Abeyweera Imthiaz Bakeer Markar Reginald Cooray Thilak Karunarathna Anil Moonesinghe Ediriweera Premarathna Sarath Ranawaka Mahinda Samarasinghe Kumara Welgama Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
National List (29)	A. H. M. Azwer Anura Bandaranaike Sirimavo Bandaranaike K. N. Choksy Amara Badra Dissanayake Dinesh Dodamgoda Earl Gunasekara Kesaralal Gunasekera Rauff Hakeem D. H. N. Jayamaha Jayalath Jayawardana Lakshman Kadirgamar Ravi Karunanayake Upali Sarath Kongahage Alavi Moulana G. L. Peiris Asitha Perera A. M. D. Rajan K. B. Ratnayake Ariya Rekawa Dharmasiri Senanayake Rajitha Senaratne K. P. Silva S. Thondaman Neelan Tiruchelvam Wiswa Warnapala Batty Weerakoon M. M. Zuhair

• 1929 births
• Alumni of St. Sylvester's College
• Ceylon Workers' Congress politicians
• Tamil politicians
• Living people
• Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka
• Members of the 11th Parliament of Sri Lanka
• Ministers of state of Sri Lanka
• Sri Lankan Hindus
• Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka